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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
- Fisher Ames
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
- Aaron Brown
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
- Dalton Trumbo
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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
- Dalton Trumbo
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
- Dalton Trumbo
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The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
- Ben Gibbard
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I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
- Chrystia Freeland
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We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.
- Margaret Spellings
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It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.
- Mehbooba Mufti
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You know in democracy you can protest peacefully and I'm sure you know it will have at least some kind of impact. You need to raise your voice. If you can't do much, you know, but at least raise you voice. Raising your voice is something you need to do.
- Mehbooba Mufti
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Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.
- Mehbooba Mufti
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India is the world's largest democracy and everyone should have a right to voice their opinions.
- Mehbooba Mufti
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In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
- Robert Caro
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Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means of delivering what the public wants.
- Jess Phillips
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
- Allen Ginsberg
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Voting is the bedrock of our democracy and we have a moral responsibility to protect and expand the right to vote - for everyone.
- Andy Beshear
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I am an Indian, and I know what India is. I know Indian culture. I know Indian constitution and democracy.
- Mammootty
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The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
- Algernon Sidney
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.
- Rory Stewart
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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
- Joichi Ito
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The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.
- Joe Green
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There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.
- Amrita Rao
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Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.
- Slavoj Zizek
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In Asia, democracy has been less advanced than elsewhere. And many of these countries haven't done too badly.
- Helmut Sohmen
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Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
- Merrick Garland
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Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
- Alan Bullock
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For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.
- Stephane Hessel
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People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
- Bianca Jagger
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Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.
- John Hickenlooper
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In a democracy, a leader must be the head teacher, someone eager to respond to doubts and questions and explain the need for and the benefits of a new course.
- Óscar Arias
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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
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Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health - and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges.
- Melanne Verveer
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When we understand and respect Beijing's insistence on some aspects, we hope Beijing can understand and respect Taiwan's insistence on democracy and freedom.
- Ko Wen-je
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Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause.
- Stephen Kinzer
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In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.
- Annette Lu
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Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
- Annette Lu
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I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.
- Pete Domenici
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In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
- Chris Patten
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In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
- Chris Patten
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How can we even call this a Democracy when the House, the Senate, the White House, and now the Supreme Court are all controlled by the representatives of a minority group in America?
- Krystal Ball
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Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.
- Hasan Minhaj
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell
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In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
- Ali Abdullah Saleh
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The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.
- Ali Abdullah Saleh
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Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
- Ali Abdullah Saleh
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Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.
- Svetlana Alexievich
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If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.
- Jill Stein
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
- Jack Schwartz
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The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.
- Judd Gregg
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We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
- John Sweeney
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Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
- Todd Akin
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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.
- Rosa Luxemburg
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I think there's a dark and twisted idea of democracy that everybody is as interesting as everybody else. So we mustn't make anybody too interesting. There's an ironing out of edges and eccentricities, idiosyncrasies in people and situations.
- Tom Burke
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Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
- Tony Judt
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I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.
- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
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We are at a point in our nation's history when the right leadership is needed more than ever. Hillary has spent her life advocating for poor and working class families. Hillary will help build an economy for tomorrow and beyond; strengthen America's families; defend our country and its core values; and revitalize our democracy.
- Marcia Fudge
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
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If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.
- Maria Ressa
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The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.
- Michael Ignatieff
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Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.
- David Blunkett
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If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.
- T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
- Earl Blumenauer
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I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
- Lord Hailsham
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American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
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The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.
- Meles Zenawi
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We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.
- Meles Zenawi
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
- Rahul Gandhi
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Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.
- Annette Lu
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
- Armstrong Williams
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A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
- Armstrong Williams
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Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
- Steve King
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Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.
- Jerrold Nadler
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Vietnam's Communist Party is one-party rule but we also have principles of democracy and accountability of the leaders. Otherwise the faults would be blamed on the entire group and merits would be credited to the individual.
- Nguyen Phu Trong
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We need to balance between democracy and law and order.
- Nguyen Phu Trong
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Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
- Phylicia Rashad
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Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
- Gustav Heinemann
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Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
- Gustav Heinemann
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Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
- Adam Cohen
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If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.
- Boris Johnson
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The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
- Howard Coble
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
- Imran Khan
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How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.
- Yuval Noah Harari
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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
- Jimmy Carter
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What you mean by freedom of speech? Democracy doesn't mean you abuse your country. Sedition has a law in the constitution. You can't give speeches against your country.
- Alok Nath
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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
- Stephane Hessel
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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
- Jimmy Carter
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There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.
- Rashid al-Ghannushi
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I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
- Rashid al-Ghannushi
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I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.
- Rashid al-Ghannushi
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On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.
- Sebastian Pinera
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
- Jack Kemp
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Democracy is not a spectator sport.
- Mike Quigley
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The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
- Bill Richardson
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
- Brad Henry
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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
- John Oliver
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The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.
- Rebecca Solnit
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
- Carl Icahn
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